By James McWilliams as published in the Slate Horse meat is, in essence, an industrial byproduct At Brooklyn’s Great GoogaMooga food festival last May, Hugue Dufour, the noted chef who’d co-founded the acclaimed M. Wells Diner, sold 5,000 grilled-cheese sandwiches that created quite a buzz among New York […]
Press Release from Canadian Horse Defence Coalition Horses shipped for live meat in wooden crates so small they cannot stand in their natural position October 18, 2012, Calgary, AB – Footage taken of Alberta horses being shipped live to Japan for slaughter shows that the Canadian Food Inspection […]
A Public Service Announcement by Simone Netherlands of Respect4Horses
By: Cheryl Hanna as published on the Examiner “Almost all of our horse meat is incorrectly certified!” The temporary shutdown of Canadian horse slaughter early Friday morning still has not produced any definitive reasons as to why American horses were turned away and their brokers, killbuyers, and drivers […]
OpEd by R.T. Fitch ~ volunteer president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation No Butchering or Blood for a Weekend, but its back! Jerry Finch and I conversed on the fact that over the weekend reality seem to pale and fall out of focus every time we allowed our […]
by Jerry Finch ~ founder/president of Habitat for Horses “HfH will not be paying money to any killer buyer for any horses…” Known Facts: Since around noon on Friday, October 12, the majority of horses in the US have finally been safe – at least from the threat […]
By: Cheryl Hanna ~ Pet Rescue Examiner “We all knew this was coming and have warned of it for years…” Horse dealers and “killbuyers” arriving with their trucks filled with American horses slated to be slaughtered in Canada for their meat were told early Friday morning to take […]
Press Release from Equine Welfare Alliance and the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition Market for Butchered American Horses is Slaughtered Chicago (EWA) – US horses are no longer being accepted by Canadian horse slaughter plants, according to multiple sources. The Shipshewana auction in Indiana confirmed reports that they have […]
by James McWilliams.com “Bute is banned by the FDA for use on animals destined to become food” The whole M. Wells Horse Tartaregate got me looking into the matter of horse meat in greater depth and intensity. I’m now writing a piece on it for a national publication and […]
by Frank Buchman of the Kansas Rural Messenger “Americans don’t eat horse meat…” “The ‘bleeding hearts’ got reprieve again.” It sounds terribly rude, and crude, but that’s exactly the way one lifelong horse breeder, champion-horse exhibitor, internationally-recognized horse merchandizer, and true horse lover evaluated announcement that a horse […]
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